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What had started off as a Thanksgiving feast for friends to enjoy each other as an entire class, 在莱克天主教堂发生了更大的变化. 
土耳其的一天, one of the school’s longest standing tradition started back in 1974, 星期一继续, 11月. 21, as the Class of 2023 lived out one of Lake Catholic’s core values – it’s willingness to serve.

“This is one of the most important days of our school year,” 艾莉森·埃利斯, the Lake Catholic 神学 Department Chair, and head of the school’s 校园部. “It’s important for the seniors to go out and put our values into action. And we invite the entire school to the prayer service so the underclassmen can see what this means to all of us.”

这一天以全校祈祷仪式开始, 不仅为高年级学生祈祷, 但对那些它想要帮助的人来说也是如此. The seniors chose between nine different service projects and headed out in the community. 

Groups were sent off to clean up the Fairport Harbor beach, despite the snow and cold; Broadmoor School, to work and play with the children; Willoughby Workshop, to work and eat lunch with the adults there; Vocational Guidance Center, working with the adults there; Little Annie’s Hope Train, assembling toiletries for the homeless; Grateful 给, baking cookies for first responders; Karpos Ministry, 为无家可归的人做热饭. Mary Painesville; the Food Bank in Geauga County, making hot meals for the homeless; and shoveling driveways for the elderly in Mentor (which was a change up from leaf clean up because of the weather).

The students came back to school for a catered Thanksgiving feast, which was what 土耳其的一天 started as back in the ‘70s.

“This day originally started just as a way for us to have the entire senior class sit down and enjoy each other over a Thanksgiving dinner,” 丰富Troha, who was the originator of 土耳其的一天 when he was a teacher at here. “It has grown into a day of service but bringing the kids back to school is a nice way to combine what it was to what it is now.”

The day ended with another new addition – a Community Action Poverty Simulation, which is an interactive immersion experience that sensitizes participants to the realities of poverty. The Simulation is a program run out of the Nonprofit and Public 服务 Center at Lakeland Community College. 土卫四DeMitro, who executed these simulations at Lakeland before becoming the President and CEO at United Way of Lake County, volunteered at Lake Catholic to head up the simulation.

She said when she works with a group entirely made up of students, that there is at least one who has that “ah-ha” moment to realize how blessed they are. She said she heard from a couple students afterward that they did have such a moment.

“我希望当你离开这里的时候, 你知道你有多幸运,结束活动时，她对大家说. “I hope you go out and share your time, talents, and gifts with your community.”